Re: LOCKing method in my situation?

Alexander:

It sounds like a lock preventing concurrent writes would be your best
bet.  This would mean that only one instance of your script can be
*changing* the table at one time, but it has no effect on transactions
that only read from that.

If I read the docs correctly:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/explicit-locking.html

You want to obtain a ROW EXCLUSIVE lock, e.g.,

LOCK TABLE <table name> IN ROW EXCLUSIVE;

Regards,

Paul Tillotson

Alexander Popkov wrote:

>Hello PostgreSQL gurus!
>
>I am have question to you.
>
>I am have table 'chall_item' in my database.
>In many PHP scripts i am do 'SELECT * FROM chall_item....', but
>in one script (join.php) i do
>  a) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM chall_item WHERE chall_no = XXX;
>  b) if returned number less then 10, then i do INSERT INTO chall_item (chall_no, ...) VALUES (XXX, ...);
>
>But if beetwen a) and b) other instance of 'join.php' do part "a)" - then odd row are added ;(
>
>I can do LOCK TABLE chall_item IN ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE,
>but IMHO this is not true method in this situation, because i need lock only for 'join.php'
>not for all scripts. Help me plz. Which other methods are exist in this situation.
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